Rovio Entertainment
| Rovio Entertainment Ltd. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2003 |
| Seat | Espoo , Finland |
| management | Kati Levoranta, CEO |
| Number of employees | 391 |
| sales | 158.3 million euros (2014) |
| Branch | Computer games |
| Website | http://www.rovio.com/ |
Rovio Entertainment Ltd. ( Rovio for short ) is a Finnish computer games company. The company achieved great fame with the release of the game Angry Birds .
history
The company was founded in 2003 under the name Relude and renamed Rovio Mobile in 2005 . The big breakthrough came in 2009 when Rovio released the game Angry Birds . The game has been downloaded over two billion times worldwide on all available platforms.
In 2011, the renaming followed in Rovio Entertainment Ltd . The company is now valued at over a billion US dollars. In March 2012, Rovio took over the development studio Futuremark Games Studio of the 3D benchmark manufacturer Futuremark.
In July 2012, the Amazing Alex game for iOS and Android was released and topped the list of the best-selling apps in less than 24 hours. It's about a curious boy who is confronted with increasingly difficult challenges. It depends on the interplay of objects that Alex collects in the course of the game.
In October 2014 it was announced that Rovio is cutting up to 130 jobs (around 16 percent of the workforce). In January 2015, Pekka Rantala became the new CEO and Mikael Hed moved to the Board of Directors. The pre-tax profit decreased from EUR 36.5 million in 2013 to EUR 10 million in 2014. After less than a year, Rantala resigned in December 2015 and Kati Levoranta became the new CEO. The IPO took place in September 2017, the issue price of the shares was 11.50 euros. The total company value was around 900 million euros.
Developed games
Rovio has developed a large number of games or ported them to mobile platforms (especially smartphones ), but only a fraction of them were successful. The following list contains the most successful games that Rovio has developed or ported:
- Need for Speed: Carbon (2006, smartphone version)
- Burnout (2007, smartphone version)
- Angry Birds (2009)
- Amazing Alex (2012)
- Bad Piggies (2012)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.owler.com/company/rovio
- ↑ a b derStandard.at: "Angry Birds" runs out of air: massive slump in profits at Rovio . APA notification dated March 19, 2015, accessed March 19, 2015.
- ^ Rovio Mobile Ltd .: Private Company Information - BusinessWeek. Retrieved October 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Angry Birds Hits A Half Billion In Downloads. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 5, 2011 ; Retrieved November 2, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Angry Birds Coming to Flash 11 (Looks awesome!). Retrieved October 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Angry Birds go public on the New York Stock Exchange. Retrieved October 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Is Rovio worth $ 1.2 billion? Retrieved October 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Andreas Wilkens: Angry Birds makers grab Futuremark's game department. In: Heise online . March 27, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Lars Budde: Amazing Alex: New game from the Angry Birds makers storms app charts. (No longer available online.) In: t3n. July 13, 2012, archived from the original on July 15, 2012 ; Retrieved July 14, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ heise - "Angry Birds" maker Rovio cancels up to 130 jobs . Article dated October 2, 2014, accessed October 20, 2014.
- ↑ Andreas Wilkens: Rovio worth almost 900 million euros on its stock market debut. In: Heise online . September 28, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
- ^ Rovio - All Games. Retrieved October 7, 2011 .
